Word: cd
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They won't be alone. Nearly two-dozen CD-ROMs aimed at preteen girls will be released this fall by companies with names like Girl Games and Her Interactive. It's a market that has been all but ignored in favor of the seemingly bottomless appetite of boys and young men for so-called twitch games, like the bloody, light-speed shoot-'em-ups Quake and Doom. Why the sudden interest in what young women may want? In a word: Barbie. Mattel last fall released a disc called Barbie Fashion Designer that was a runaway best seller, proving once...
...Some of the new titles come linked to popular books like the American Girl and Babysitters' Club series or Hollywood franchises such as Clueless and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. But a few hardy souls plan to sail unlicensed into waters that, given the hit-or-miss track record of CD-ROMs, are most kindly described as uncharted...
Translation: boys like Die Hard, girls like Guiding Light. Not exactly rocket science, eh? In fact, as the only modestly successful software house Rocket Science Games has learned, creating a hit CD-ROM can be just as hard as rocket science. Purple Moon's strategy is to give girls what they need and don't get nearly enough of: a chance to use play to deal with the issues they face in their increasingly complex emotional lives. "We call the age between childhood and adolescence the Two-Headed Girl," says Laurel. "On the one hand you're constructing your social...
Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD, The Colour and the Shape (Roswell/ Capitol), Foo Fighters never breaks out of the label "promising," which starts to sound more like a burden than a compliment the second time around. The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that's been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, Up in Arms, Grohl actually sings, "I cannot forget you, girl." It's hard to believe he can offer up a toothless lyric like...
Audubon's bird illustrations have become part of the experience of living in America, available on calendars, coffee mugs and cd-roms. The Smithsonian exhibit traces these images back to their humble and extraordinary roots...